Really puts into perspective how small the maps actually are when you look at how narrow they made the roads in the urban areas.

Alyx: "I want the Combine off Earth" Gman:

Plot twist: there was no resonance cascade, the experiment was a success and the radiation just got to Gordon's head

This video makes me feel like im on an acid trip. Seeing all the areas i've played through hundereds of times already, in an unruined state, is just weird. Especially ravenholm, with it being day, and zombies arent everywhere, and highway 17, with there being actual water. And the distorted music and voices, that's just downright terrifying.

"Hey, Gordon. Gordon!" "Thank God you're awake, you gave me a damn good scare! At first I thought you were just messing with me, hiding in the vents and all that." "What are you talking about? Resonance Cascade? Xen? Government coverup? The Combine?" "You must've hit your head really hard. Don't you remember? We were racing through the vents when Dr. Kleiner locked himself in the office again." "It's alright, Dr. Vance cancelled the test when he heard you ended up in the infirmary. He says it wasn't all that safe anyways." "Now take a rest, I'll come see you when my shift ends. I might even bring some donuts."

Also, this looks more like Counter-Strike now.

Absolutely beautiful! Everything the scenery the cars ravenholm all of it, looks so nice but yet it's so sad to know this was the calm before the storm. It was just another average day when it all happened, to see all this beauty turn too chaos and rule from the combine

It feels so empty without the NPCs though.

The fact that hl2 takes place in 2020 makes this really accurate... Not really since there aren't any train stations like these anymore

I really like the idea of this being like an end-game section of Half-Life 3, Gordon seeing the before and the first arrival of the Combine, hearing the echoes of the iconic encounters through City 17

With the distorted voices, it sounds like Gordon's just going insane.

It’s easy to forget that every man made structure in HL2 was built with a vastly different purpose in mind compared to what the combine and the remnants of humanity use them for.

The mod was supposed to erase the feeling of dystopia in half-life 2 but this mod still seems creepy. This one has the vibe of being small child, that has been lost in a city that seems very alive, but it's empty. I conviced again, that Source's graphics are genious.

The drained oceans looked so crazy when filled up with the water. It feels so weird

Oh man this is silence before the disaster, I had always thought how happy everything was before the incident

Ravenholm looks surprisingly like a normal town, something you can't really see with the zombies, dark and fire

Someone should make a mod where it’s Hl2 except everything is normal and just name the game Full-Life 2

These maps are more creepier than original. It feels more like something happened and everyone just vanished and Gordon is the only living being on Earth. Especially these creepy versions of quotes and eerie ambient. If you want a pre-war version, please, make many NPC wondering and doing everything. And more atmoshere more lively.

Half Life : Liminal Space

This is surprisingly surreal playing through this game and seeing a time when everything was “normal”

This is some sort of a creepypasta right here, lads. It's like nothing happened. No 7 hours war, no Xen invasion, no mysteriously looking man in suit with briefcase and glowing eyes. Just a man, who don't remember his own name and empty world without any trace of humanity. Car sounds, trais leaving their stations..? *I T ' S A L L I N H I S H E A D*

Gordon! You're finally awake! That fall looked really bad. What? Aliens? The combine? A man with suitcase? What are you talking about? Let's go to Black Mesa.

Pre-7 Hour War City 17 looks like a nice place to live in

It's sad this once beautiful city gets destroyed by the combines.

If this is 2021, valve is still making games , there's still a hope for half life 3

the way this train station is haunted and becoming a liminal space in a way . it remind me of the mini city plaza in Portal stories Mel .

I was liking the video already, but when the coast part apperead IT BLEW MY MIND. I already know that the water levels are down in the HL2 but seeying this is amazing. Great video bud.

Imagine living in Ravenholm before the 7 hours war

3:26 looks like "cs_italy" lol

"Gordon doesn't need to hear this, he is a highly trained professional.." - A Scientist

What if It was all Just a dream?

My God. City 17 and Ravenholm look so friendly before 7 hour war. But canals didn't change)))

it feels so damn weird with no NPCs

If these maps were given NPCs they should consist of both civilians dressed in clothing from before the Combine took over, and soldiers from the UN Peacekeepers and Bulgarian armed forces guarding various locations and battling the occasional Xen Fauna from the Portal Storms. Unless these maps are intended for just before the Resonance Cascade with normal people going about their daily routines, then I wouldn't mind seeing that as well as what ruined versions of each map would look like Post Black Mesa Incident-Pre Seven Hour War with some of the additions I mentioned above. But it is creepy without seeing any NPCs doing scripted actions or players constantly bunny hopping, messing with physics props, and screaming obscenities into their microphones or typing random gibberish in chat messages. I will miss those days when Gmod was that active compared to today.

When City 17 Without Combine:

Honestly I get a depressing vibe from this, because everyone know what happens to these places eventually. It's just tragic to think that there was once a time these places looked actually beautiful

The atmosphere in city 17 At night before all that happened is just amazing. And again Amazing video noclick.

great stuff, but the trees wouldnt be dead @ 10:06, the combine were responsible for that

it's feel strange to see ravenholm before 7 hour war

Now, we go to Ravenholm! XD

Imagine if The G-Man actually granted Alyx's wish to nudge Combine off earth and everything returns back to normal. But the unforeseen consequences is everyone is gone, not killed, not mutated, they just like never existed, you are stranded alone in a "peaceful" world of void.

I always imagine what it looked like before the combine arrived. Such a damn shame. A place beautiful like ravenholm is overtaken with decay and death.

Ravenholm looks so beautiful, haha what a change

I'm not really good at commenting but this almost made me cry. To see and hear everything from a peaceful and calm perspective with the distorted music and ghostly voices is sad. The ghostly voices really set an unnerving tone, kind of like foreshadowing the horrors that have yet to come and the distorted music is just disturbing, really. humanity is on the brink of extinction and this was what it looked like is upsetting. anyway, this is the end of my comment.

Now you must do the passing of this version of Half-Life. Something like "Half-Life: Long Tour for the Kleiner's office keys to the East Black Mesa"

This video makes me feel like Gordon was just a schizophrenic who traveled throughout City-17 in a crazed manic state, and this is his realization that everything was just in his head

What an incredible video! such a different perspective, in a different world.

it's so beautiful see the city in a normal situation without that chaos... but liminal without persons... creepy... and i don't know why but this remembers me the HL2 Beta for some reason

That was bloody beautiful! I just wonder why the water levels are still low in Water Hazard when concrete constructions have visible water lines way above the actual water.

Was awestrucked seeing river at the antlion 's wasteland.

5:40 that is a really unsafe place for an apartment block to be at.

POV you find the old gmod maps you used to play every day with your friends after school in 2014

It's strange seeing the city without the Combine occupation but also without a single soul.

These are all liminal-worthy.

seeing that undrained oceans just made this beautiful scenery so beautiul

Imagine if these maps before 7 hour war, was used for a half life 2 ending where gordon should go where gman goes

it's weird because while watching this video, i can hear in the back of my head, sounds of npcs and things in every area, crazy stuff man, crazy

Touring Bulgaria on May 15th, 2000.

Just makes the game even better after all these years. It's definitely eerie

plot twist: this is after the resistance wins against the combine and repairs all the human architecture to it's formal glory but since they gotta rebuild all the cities in the world, the human population has to stay in city 17 for now but when Gordon makes his way to the train station to get to his destination, he has severe PTSD

Before the 7 hour war, City 17 was a DarkRP server.

All those locations that we visit at night, look like CS:GO maps during daytime.

man i really like the game "life", one of my favourites.

Ravenholm kinda looks like a CS:GO map

this is like a city tour 17 before the black mesa disaster, and the arrival of the combine

I would have loved to see the Highway 17 bridge with full ocean. That would have been sick

So it was a horror game before the 7 hour war

Nice video man keep it up

this feels so eerie and different, but where is everybody?

This feels so surreal, like if all the events in Half Life were just a bad nightmare or some horrible hallucination. Like, if the disaster never happened either due to the test being cancelled or due to it going all according to plan without any outside influence

echoes of the future This really puts into perspective how much the Combine changed the world after they showed up.

This Feels Like Backroom But With Gm_Construction Feeling

Bright and sunny City 17 gives me vibes of urban race tracks from FlatOut 2. It has the same weird mix of good condition and abandonment.

Got shivers looking at normal water level during coastal levels

You can still hear the citadel sounds lols well in some maps

the sound of people walking talking makes me scared as there is no one there as if they were voices in your head

these maps actually look liminal without the people and the chaos brought by the combine and the resonance cascade, and i love it so much it's like, it looks too normal it feels so lonely and calming at the same time... therefore, liminal

I like to think this is gordon imagining how better life was for other people and him before the resonance cascade happened, and before the combine came

Finally, a Half Life mod video that doesn't have mediocre memes every 5 seconds.

Sweet, They have full life now.

3:27 That layout looks quite similar to cs_italy with the 2 pathes going left and right

4:56 доски ещë наврятли были оставлены не отцом Григорием)

half life 2 ❌ Peaceful life ✔️

POV: You're Gordon in 2002 and you are foreshadowing.

It's so cool to see City 17 before the 7 hour war

Bit of a random question but how do you get that sort of ghostly echo effect when you play dialogue etc in the background? Heard it in other media and I’d like to incorporate into my projects

Gordon but dementia

Time Traveler: Moves rock Future:

if the resonance cascade never happened half-life 2:

Ravenholm pre war is cursed af

Wow . That past of half-life

Half Life 2 but gordon suffers of schizophrenia

Even before 7 hour war hl2 was scary as hell

The coasts roads are still destroyed lol

The 7-Hour war happened right before Gordon sticked a crystal into a teleporter thing in black mesa

Imagine humans just enjoying there lives and just living a happy life and no xen no combine no explosions no casualties no human zombies it was all just a regular world…

Dark age meme song insert

you can download background npcs to make game more pre war, and pre war cars

fact: pre-war ravenholm looks the same after the war until they shelled it

Feel so damn weird no fucking NPC